CVE-2026-35527
MediumCVSS 5.0Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs
Summary
Incus before version 7.0.0 sends a HEAD request to a user-supplied URL before validating project restrictions. An authenticated attacker can force the daemon to make blind HEAD requests to arbitrary destinations, leaking server metadata and enabling internal service probing.
Risk Assessment
Attackers can gather host environment information and scan internal networks, increasing the risk of further attacks.
Recommendation
Upgrade Incus to version 7.0.0 or later, which includes the fix.
Original NVD description (English source)
Incus is an open source container and virtual machine manager. In versions prior to 7.0.0, the image import flow issues an outbound HEAD request to a user-supplied URL before validating the request against project restrictions such as restricted.images.servers. The imgPostURLInfo function constructs and sends a HEAD request directly from the attacker-supplied source URL to resolve image metadata, and this network interaction occurs before the flow reaches the point where the import would be rejected by policy. Although the actual image download is blocked by the project restriction, an authenticated user can coerce the daemon into making blind HEAD requests to arbitrary destinations. These requests include server metadata in custom headers (Incus-Server-Architectures, Incus-Server-Version), which discloses information about the host environment to the attacker-controlled endpoint. This blind SSRF primitive can be used to probe internal services, unroutable address space, or cloud metadata endpoints reachable from the host. This vulnerability pattern is similar to CVE-2026-24767. This issue has been fixed in version 7.0.0.